"Short Break Operator is a delicate and hypnotic sound often dropping to below a whisper, divining its dramatic tension in the unsettling open spaces created by the absence of form with alternately tense & relaxing beatwork endlessly repeated in shifting combinations. James Chapman's a.k.a. Short Break Operator's roots are planted firmly in a uniquely British experimentalism, yet these songs have a rare quality of burying themselves under your skin, while the arrangement and melodies make you think of sunny afternoons by the pool."